Hi friends.
So I've decided to bite the bullet and share my personal project here for everyone's enjoyment (amusement?) (scrutiny??). Part of an effort to be more involved in the community.
jackalpup is an audio production focused puppy with jack sound server preconfigured.
-Remastered from Fossapup64 for an, almost, traditional base. (thanks @666philb)
-5.4.70rt40 from @rockedge (low latency kernels also available for easy swapping)
-A curation of linux audio apps and plugins mostly from the kxstudio repos but also drawing ideas and inspiration from Avlinux, studio 1337 and the wide world of FLOSS audio in general.
-Focused on including tools and plugins that are not available from the ppm.
-A lite(ish) starter pack of synths, sequencers, loopers, multi tracking and effects.
-Carla audio plugin host gives access to a few hundred audio/midi instruments, effects and utilities
-Plugin collections have been manually trimmed down almost entirely to one plugin format (lv2), to keep as small a base as possible while still having a hefty arsenal of awesome sauce ready to rock.
-Qjackctl with jack preconfigured for studio work and clean revert back to alsa.
-Customized jack capture for quickly recording all jack audio on the fly.
-Ported sound kit scripts (avlinux) for building sfz soundkits and h2drumkits from wav, flac, ogg files.
-Global dark theme for those of us who loathe a white screen.
-Extra utilities from the community built in (EasyDD, Fix-usb, MM_View, f4, YouTube-Getv3) Many thanks!
-Slim-iso (662 MB) has Carla 2.3 (with a few hundred plugins), qtractor , Luppp, guitarix, sequencer64, Qmidiarp, Helm, ZynAddSubfx and plenty more.
-adrv (161 MB) adds Ardour 6.6, calf rack, some more synths and several hundred more plugins.
-ydrv (101 MB) adds Hydrogen (with some light kits), Mixxx 2.2.4 and Odin2 2.2.4
-Full-iso (922 MB) includes all of the above.
I have also uploaded "multiboot.zip" files for flash drive. It has both refind for uefi and grub4dos for legacy bios mode.
Simply extract the .zip to the root of a FAT32 formatted usb (or first partition), to boot from a uefi machine. (secure boot disabled)
To add legacy bios boot capability, first set the boot flag with gparted, then run Grub4Dos bootloader config from the system->install menu. Select your usb drive and check the "Search only within this device" and "Do not rewrite menu.lst" boxes. This can be done from the live boot on the uefi machine or any other puppy.
It is experimental but I have had good results and I am curios how it works for others.
So if you have a need, interest, curiosity... Please try it out.
~Blessings~
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